Division and a bit of Texas drama as California GOP meets to hear from 2012 candidates

Los Angeles — As 1,000 California Republicans gather to listen to 2012 presidential candidate Michele Bachmann Friday, it’s clear that there’s drama brewing — and some political divisions opening up — in the biggest GOP state organization in the country. And already, some trouble between the camps of two Texans trying to get to the White House.

For one: fliers are already making their way around the J.W. Marriott at LALive from the some of the Glendale-based supporters of Texas Rep. Ron Paul who call themselves Voters Against Conspiracy and Treason – and who take aim, bigtime at Lone Star Gov. Rick Perry. (Paul will be addressing the California Republicans at their big Saturday morning Lincoln Club breakfast, then hitting a health care event here, we’re told.)

It’s not clear how much the incendiary literature is connected — if it even is — directly to Paul’s campaign. But the stuff is wild.

Among the “EIGHT TRUTHS about Rick Perry the mainstream media is afraid” to mention, the group’s fliers floating around the convention center say: “Perry supported Al Gore for president and served as Gore’s campaign state chair in 1988,” (uh, it’s been mentioned), Perry issued an executive order “that would have forced almost every single girl in his state to receive the (HPV) vaccine” (widely covered), and Perry attended a 2007 meeting of a “secretive, fascist New World Order organization” (Yikes, major charge there, completely unsubstantiated.)

Perry, the group says, is “a corrupt, big-time globalist who has through the back door raised taxes and fees.” The literature promises” you can trust U.S. Rep. Ron Paul’s excellent, 100 percent pro-freedom, 22-year voting record…as actions speak much louder than words.”

If it’s any consolation to Team Perry, they’re not much kinder to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, “the most left wing, liberal “Republican” “RINO” “Neocon..since former New York Gov. Rockefeller ran for president.”